Dancing With the Stars: Valerie Harper's Last Dance

"My knees are killing me," moans Valerie Harper, lifting her gold lam gown and showing off two knees wrapped in heavy bandages. It's moments after her elimination on Monday night's Dancing With The Stars and Harper is cheerfully working the ...

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Posted Oct. 8, 2013 at 1:01 PM

By TV Guide
Posted Oct. 8, 2013 at 1:01 PM

"My knees are killing me," moans Valerie Harper, lifting her gold lamé gown and showing off two knees wrapped in heavy bandages. It's moments after her elimination on Monday night's Dancing With The Starsand Harper is cheerfully working the press line, flashing the smile that belies the crushing diagnosis she was given in January: That her lung cancer, which she thought she had beaten, had spread to the membranes surrounding her brain and that she had three to six months to live.

"I feel very happy that I was here for four dances with Tristan [MacManus]," she says.